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  • HEARTS IN ATLANTIS
    HEARTS IN ATLANTIS
    STEPHEN KING
    HORROR & GHOST STORIES. 'Although it's difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened' (Author's Afterword). Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last US troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war - and the protests against it - had floode...
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  • THE PUB LOVER'S GUIDE TO LONDON
    THE PUB LOVER'S GUIDE TO LONDON
    CALLUM MOY
    A guidebook that pairs London's historical landmarks with nearby pubs, offering a journey through the city's diverse history and vibrant pub culture. Metropolitan London has around 7,000 public houses - an average of 25 pubs per square mile. No other capital city in the world matches this density. It's not surprising that the London pub is such an institution at home and abroa...
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    18,75 €

  • WRECK
    WRECK
    CATHERINE NEWMAN
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Beautiful, funny, wry, relatable and uplifting... I LOVE her work, it's so clever and comforting and the antidote to these times' MARIAN KEYES 'The kind of book that pulls up a chair, pours the wine, and dives deep... like spending hours with the friend who sees your mess and loves you more for it.' Alison Espach, New York Times bestselling auth...
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    21,25 €

  • THE CARNIVOROUS CARNIVAL
    THE CARNIVOROUS CARNIVAL
    LEMONY SNICKET
    "The Carnivorous Carnival contains such a distressing story that consuming any of its contents would be far more stomach-turning than even the most imbalanced meal. To avoid causing discomfort, it would be best if I didn't mention any of the ingredients of this story, particularly a confusing map, an ambidextrous person, an unruly crowd, a wooden plank and Chabo the Wolf Baby. ...
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  • THE ANARCHY
    THE ANARCHY
    WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
    THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India ... A book of beauty' - Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English m...
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  • DADDY ISSUES
    DADDY ISSUES
    KATHERINE ANGEL
    Over the past decade, we have begun to talk more openly about the widespread harm inflicted by men on women. But little has been said about the fact that many of these men are also fathers. In Daddy Issues Katherine Angel draws on thinkers and writers from D. W. Winnicott to Valerie Solanas, from Virginia Woolf to Alison Bechdel, as she examines the place of fathers in contempo...
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  • SEDUCTION AND CELEBRITY
    SEDUCTION AND CELEBRITY
    QUINTIN COLVILLE
    The first publication to focus on the fashionable, ambitious, Emma Hamilton, an influential historical figure in her own rightEmma Hamilton (1765-1815) rose from humble origins to national and international fame as a model, performer, trendsetter, and interpreter of neo-classical fashion, though she was probably best known as the mistress of Lord Nelson and the muse of the Engl...
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    21,35 €

  • THE HILL STATION
    THE HILL STATION
    J. G. FARRELL
    "A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author. To the cool of the Simla hills comes a reluctant Dr McNab, with his wife and young niece. For Emily, romance is in the air. For the mysterious Mrs Forester, there is scandal brewing. And for the Bishop of Simla, rainclouds are not the only storms on the horizon. The Hill Station is the novel on which J.G. Farrell was working at...
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  • SCYTHE
    SCYTHE
    NEAL SHUSTERMAN
    "A dark, gripping and witty thriller in which the only thing humanity has control over is death. In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ("gleaned") by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes' apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation, they ...
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    11,25 €

  • THE BLADE ITSELF
    THE BLADE ITSELF
    JOE ABERCROMBIE
    Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers. Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating hi...
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    16,25 €

  • THE PAINTED VEIL
    THE PAINTED VEIL
    WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
    Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts ...
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  • AS GOOD AS DEAD
    AS GOOD AS DEAD
    HOLLY JACKSON
    The third thrilling book in the bestselling, award-winning A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series. It's been six months since Pip Fitz-Amobi solved her last case and soon she'll be heading off to Cambridge University. But then another case finds Pip ... and this time it's personal. With her new internet fame in the wake of her podcast, Pip is getting used to the online death thre...
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  • ARTEMIS FOWL AND THE TIME PARADOX
    ARTEMIS FOWL AND THE TIME PARADOX
    EOIN COLFER
    Teenage mastermind Artemis Fowl had hoodwinked fairies and battled goblins. This time, it's personal. Artemis's mother is gravely ill. Unfortunately the cure, an endangered lemur, was made extinct eight years ago ... by Artemis himself. Talk about awkward. What if he could travel back in time, outwit his former self and bring the lemur home? With the right demon warlock, it mig...
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    9,99 €

  • TWELFTH NIGHT
    TWELFTH NIGHT
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Variously melancholy, lyrical, joyous and farcic...
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  • FRANKENSTEIN
    FRANKENSTEIN
    MARY SHELLEY
    The world's most famous work of horror fiction: a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadMary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes...
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  • DODGER
    DODGER
    TERRY PRATCHETT
    A brand new edition of a Terry Pratchett classic - set in Victorian London, and starring cunning but kind Dodger, as he sets off on a whirlwind adventure through the city streetsTHE SEWER IS DODGER'S WORLD . . .He hunts treasure there - coins and jewels lost in the dark and dirty drains. It's a good life, if you don't mind getting your hands (and arms and feet and face) dirty.B...
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  • MR STINK
    MR STINK
    DAVID WALLIAMS
    Chloe sees Mr Stink every day, but she's never spoken to him. Which isn't surprising, because he's a tramp, and he stinks. But there's more to Mr Stink than meets the eye (or nose) and before she knows it, Chloe has an unusual new friend hiding in her garden shed. ...
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    9,99 €

  • FREAKONOMICS
    FREAKONOMICS
    STEVEN D. LEVITT / STEPHEN J. DUBNER
    Life can be baffling and chaotic, and sometimes it's hard to make sense of it all. The answer, explains groundbreaking thinker Steven Levitt, lies in economics. Not ordinary economics, but freakonomics. It is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, health to education, fear to traffic jams. In ...
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    13,75 €

  • DAWNSHARD
    DAWNSHARD
    BRANDON SANDERSON
    When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea. Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companions...
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  • PENGUIN READERS LEVEL 1: TAYLOR SWIFT
    PENGUIN READERS LEVEL 1: TAYLOR SWIFT
    LADYBIRD
    Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language lear...
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    9,99 €

  • QUEENIE
    QUEENIE
    CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A deliciously funny, characterful, topical and thrilling novel for our times' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 'Brilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking' Jojo Moyes 'A must-read novel about sex,...
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    11,25 €

  • NIGHT WATCH
    NIGHT WATCH
    JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 'A haunting story of conflict with hope at its heart' Daily Mail 'A tour de force - breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES 'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL 'Excellent... Phillips has brought a little more of this foundational American episode into the light' GUARDIAN In the ...
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  • ON THE BLACK HILL
    ON THE BLACK HILL
    BRUCE CHATWIN
    On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments movingly ...
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  • THE LAST RIDE OF THE JAMES–YOUNGER GANG
    THE LAST RIDE OF THE JAMES–YOUNGER GANG
    SEAN MCLACHLAN
    It was the beginning of the end for the James gang. In the past ten years Frank and Jesse James had gone from unknown ex-Confederate guerrillas to the most famous outlaws in the world. A string of daring robberies of banks, trains, and stagecoaches had brought them fame, admiration, hatred, and a surprisingly small amount of wealth. In 1876 they planned their most daring raid y...
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  • IF I SURVIVE YOU
    IF I SURVIVE YOU
    JONATHAN ESCOFFERY
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    16,25 €

  • HOLMES, MARGARET AND POE
    HOLMES, MARGARET AND POE
    JAMES PATTERSON
    Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple and Auguste Poe run the most in-demand private investigation agency in New York City.The three detectives make a formidable team, solving a series of seemingly impossible crimes - from a priceless art theft and a decades-old unsolved murder, to mysterious disappearances that expose corruption and bribery at the highest levels of power. ...
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  • CLOWN TOWN: THE NEW THRILLER IN THE BESTSELLING SERIES THAT INSPIRED THE HIT SHOW SLOW HORSES (SLOUGH HOUSE THRILLER 9)
    CLOWN TOWN: THE NEW THRILLER IN THE BESTSELLING SERIES THAT INSPIRED THE HIT SHOW SLOW HORSES (SLOUGH HOUSE THRILLER 9)
    MICK HERRON
    Slow horse River Cartwright is waiting to be passed fit for work. With time to kill, and with his grandfather a legendary former spy long dead, River investigates the secrets of the old man's library, and a mysteriously missing book. Regent's Park's First Desk, Diana Taverner, doesn't appreciate threats. So when those involved in a covert operation during the height of the Trou...
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    21,25 €

  • THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR
    THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR
    ERIC CARLE
    A much-loved classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar has won over millions of readers with its vivid and colourful collage illustrations and its deceptively simply, hopeful story. With its die-cut pages and finger-sized holes to explore, this is a richly satisfying book for children. ...
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    9,99 €

  • THE MELANCHOLY OF RESISTANCE
    THE MELANCHOLY OF RESISTANCE
    LÁSZLÓ KRASZNAHORKAI
    A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find - music, cosmology, fascism. ...
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  • A CONCISE HISTORY OF POLAND
    A CONCISE HISTORY OF POLAND
    JERZY LUKOWSKI / HUBERT ZAWADZKI
    Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second World War, and reduced to satellite status of the Soviet Union after 1945. Yet it emerged in the vanguard of resistance to the USSR in the 1980s, albeit as a much more homogeneous entity than it had been in its multi-ethnic pa...
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